I write this first thing in the morning, as I woke up after some seemingly random dreams (which I will write later) and then I sat down to meditate. Mentation went naturally to the issues I described yesterday: the combination of design thinking and spirituality to develop spiritual products, and I thought “if corporations are starting to do this shit, they will pollute the space, should I be doing this instead?” and visions of the product came about.

It is not an inspired product, it is simply claiming the platonic space where someone is planning to develop a “spiritual mall” and instead create a garden where people can roam, offering and receiving spiritual “services”. The specifics of this will be worked out as time allows, but I would like to have a working product before 2021 ends.

I more or less know how to build an MVP, for I was a “user” of this product a couple of years ago: in the spiritual opening, one explores vehemently the space, and so I attended all and everything spiritual in a thirst which I couldn’t quench: gestalt therapy, group meditation sessions, cults that believed aliens were communicating with their prophet, I insulted and was insulted in a group, I danced ecstatically, I walked thousands of kilometers of the camino, I attended an ayahuasca ceremony, I… the list goes on and on, and in the end here I am, I can’t say if any better than before, but really appreciative at the work I did, and the intensity in which I explored this area.

This area is evergreen, and in possibility of commercial exploitation, but I wouldn’t like it to be developed this way, I suppose the financial viability would make itself clear later, but for the time being I will think about the issue as a non-profit endeavor, because I do not want to shape the product according to financial concerns.

I am writing about this as if this were a decision I had really pondered and I am committed about, which is throughly alien to me, I normally second guess myself. I do have a certain resistance because I know this kind of project is not really creative, at least in the beginning, I have envisioned it more like a directory.

Spiritually the first thing I need to do is to free up my schedule so that I have time to begin working on this. Client work is the bane of all my creativity. Why is it so hard to find the space for what is spiritually meaningful? Because it is not as meaningful enough as to push away financial commitments. If I felt called by Jesus I would not wait. But I am called in a different way, this would be too early to begin work, I must put in the back of mind while I dilligently finish the projects which are already in my hands—and my hands are full—so that I can begin this spiritual quest.